6/9 "You shall have her if I have the giving of her, which I beg leave to doubt. Something tells me that much water will run under the bridges ere that wedding comes to pass. But so far as it concerns me the thing is done. Yet remember, I have never been one wisely to marry, nor yet to give in marriage." He smiled a dry, humorsome smile--the smile of a shrewd miller casting up his thirlage upon the mill door when he sees the fields of his parish ripe to the harvest. By the blue robe of Mary, there will be proceedings when she does know. |